Got some keen insight into reality a couple of years back. Oilman2‘s son was doing some work for us on a project and on a lunch break we got to talking about “friends” on social media. He was just finishing college and had lots of friends on social media. But, he was shocked at how real friends work … Read More
Since my buddy, the Major, is down visiting this week, I spent a couple of hours Sunday in massive clean-up mode. We’re both the sort of people who do “big things” when we get together, last time being a 746-foot long off-center-fed antenna. Unfortunately, when you do lots of big things, the clean-up and organization … Read More
Although there has been a small improvement in curriculum with all the talk in education about STEM (science, tech, engineering and math), many of the major concepts in Life – traditionally passed down by two parents and a set of grand parents – has blown-up. Not that there is much anyone can do about it: … Read More
No, I don’t talk much about my role in the cyber-insurance world. But, I have become much more informed than most and I want you to do one simple thing for me: “Stuffing-proof Your Email” Data breaches are happening at an ever-increasing rate. We (the people I work with) anticipate huge growth in the number … Read More
It’s spring here in the Outback and the time of year when we get back to nature and chores. In the winter, there are a huge number of “rules” most city-folk don’t know. Walking on the grass, when frozen, tends to kill it. Driving a tractor on good earth is verboten for 3-days after a heavy … Read More
As I get further into outlining the second book on the collapse of the Internet (Broken Web came out in 2012), the folly of Man’s waste of resources becomes ever-more apparent. We live in a society that – presented with the great promise of advancement based on “mind amplifiers” – has not only turned its … Read More
A major part of prepping is “keeping sharp” on those skills that you have earned over time. Like any set of muscles, they are guaranteed to deteriorate over time. You have three skill areas to be concerned with: Mental skills: Physical skills And mixed skills Let’s run through some of them and see how fast … Read More
I am just back from a 5-day adventure experienced in 5-hours of dreaming. That’s in my “second life” for I’m a oneironaut. A “oneironaut” is a person who explores other worlds in dreams. Sure, most of us go to sleep at night and will occasionally remember a snippet of a dream once back in the … Read More
In less than a week, you-know-who will turn over the speed limit: 70. If I have time to complete them, several more books are yet to fall out of these fingers including one that is the extended-play version of this morning’s discussion of: “Retirement Disease.” The idea is simple enough: You look at most things … Read More
This being Dr. Martin Luther King Day, America today is more than “half shut down.” And in keeping with Dr. King’s “I have a dream…” it’s a fine day for everyone in America to ask themselves a really simple question: “WTF are we doing here?” Once upon a time, I could have told you. But … Read More
Know why LBGT, social media, and so many other changes in human behavior are ascendant? No fear! Ure’s been evolving a new “Compact Digital Cosmology” to answer just such inquiries. One of the points in my latest book (“Psychocartography: Mapping the Human Dream“) that continues to rattle around in my head is how “screwed-up” the … Read More
I got to thinking about yesterday’s column and, honestly, I had a “guilt pang.” It occurred to me that new visitors to this site would think me quite daft for spending time on (potentially age-reversing) projects like light crowns, and such. The premise is simple: When humans began to use fire was approximately coincident to … Read More
One of our readers recently had a dandy idea…one I’ve had before, but have just never gotten around to doing anything with… Why not make an “updated tech” version of the breastplate worn in the Bible? Grand idea. It shouldn’t be too hard. To understand where this is going, you first need to understand that … Read More